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Haniya Vaid, Project Manager, PMO

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Haniya Vaid (pronounced ha-NEE-ya VADE) comes to the PMO after working as a Business Analyst III for Emory Financial operations in support of the Procure-to-Pay modules in Compass and the Emory Express interface to Compass. She had worked in that function since 2008, when she worked on the initial Compass implementation and remained to support […]

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Mark Johnson, Library Service Desk Supervisor, University Libraries

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Mark began working as the new weekend and evenings Library Service Desk Supervisor on March 10. The weekend and evenings shift includes Sunday from 1 to 10 p.m. and Monday through Thursday from 2:30 until 11:00 p.m. Mark came from the Pitts Theology Library, where he had served as the Evening Circulation Specialist since 2011. […]

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Susan Hobson, Research Informatics Analyst, R-WIT

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Susan begins her R-WIT career working on the Tripartite Project for the School of Medicine. She spent the last two years in Chicago at the American Joint Replacement Registry, a non-profit associated with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, where she was a senior registry analyst and worked with hospital administrations, orthopaedic surgeons, and IT departments nationwide to acquire […]

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Changes in Enterprise Applications management

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The Manager position for the Compass technical team has been open since August, so while the search for a candidate continues, Tom Vincent has agreed to step into the role of Interim Manager. The team is in the middle of a large tools upgrade and is preparing for an application upgrade in the fall.  Tom […]

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Jamalh Lagrone, Enterprise Messaging Systems Administrator III, Infrastructure

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Jamalh will be doing Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory work on the Messaging Team. Before coming to Emory, Jamalh was at Autotrader.com for 2 years as the Lead Senior Network Systems Engineer and worked on their messaging team. Prior to that he was at CBeyond as the Lead Senior Infrastructure Engineer, working on SQL, Active […]

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Yolanda Cooper, University Librarian, LITS

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In case you missed it, the Woodruff Library recently published an article announcing the hire of Yolanda Cooper (University Libraries) as the University Librarian, a key new position on Rich Mendola‘s executive staff. The article, published in Keywords, includes a fascinating Q&A with Yolanda as she takes over this vital role. As reported by the Emory Wheel, […]

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Tanya McKibben, Administrative Assistant, UTS Enterprise Applications

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Tanya joins the Enterprise Applications team after spending seven years with Emory Temp Services as an accounting administrative assistant, working primarily in the Controller’s Office and Compass Support. Before coming to Emory, she spent 16 years as a credit investigator for Credit Data Services. Born in Boston, MA and attending West Roxbury HS, Tanya moved […]

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